John Walker Case

David Walker was an abolitionist, orator, and author of David Walker's Appeal. Although David Walker's father, who died before his birth, was enslaved, his mother was a free woman; thus, when he was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, in September 1785, David Walker was also free, following the “condition” of his mother as prescribed by southern laws regulating slavery. Little is known about Walker's early life. He traveled widely in the South and probably spent time in Philadelphia. He developed early on an intense and abiding hatred of slavery, the result apparently of his travels and his firsthand knowledge of slavery.

In Walker III v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans (2015), attorney Scott Keller argues on behalf of the petitioner—Walker III (Walker)—and attorney Roger George represents the respondent—Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV). The case concerns the constitutionality of a decision made by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles Board (the DMV Board) to reject the specialty license plate designs submitted by SCV and its members, and addresses possible violations of the First and Fourteenth Amendment. Four contentions surround the issue: the form of speech embodied by the specialty license plate program; State control over the content of specialty license plates; specialty license plates as a limited public forum; and, ultimately, the potential violation of the First Amendment’s Free Speech Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of “viewpoint neutrality.” Justice Breyer delivers the opinion of the Court, affirming the plates as government speech. However, Justice Alito, joined by the Chief Justice, Justice Scalia, and Justice Kennedy, Justice Alito dissents, concerned with. the Court’s broad interpretation of government speech.

In David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World the message that he wants to spread is abolitionism. However, his message is one that has been pushed a bit further than where the majority of the movement had been with in its overall goals. Considering that the abolitionist movement was considered drastic in the new views on ending slavery, Walker’s Appeal in comparison would seem even more so due to his sense of urgency and belief that peaceful means were not the way to achieve emancipation. According to him, it would never happen otherwise. While Walker does share some basic tenets with the mainstream abolition movement, he expresses his own ideas about what is actually required to live in a free nation, views that were most likely seen as too extreme and the solution unwelcome.

Within the United States of America, arguments, involving the Confederate Flag, are solved every sngle day. However, some controversies have managed to carry on from the 1800’s until present day without any solution. The text and symbolic meaning behind the “Confederate Flag” is a perfect example. The Confederate Flag is one of America’s most embattled symbolic controversies. Created in 1861in a battle between the South, Confederates, and the North, Union, two men by the name P.G.T. Beauregard and Congressman William P. Miles designed and created a flag that would represent the true southern pride and demands that would not only bring about conflict with one half of the nation but also with our American society today.

In the past couple of year, there has been a controversial battle over the flying of the Confederate Flag on government buildings. The controversy has really started to stir up in the southern states such as South Carolina, Mississippi, and Georgia. On January 30, 2001, the state of Georgia changed its flag, removing the large Confederate battle cross from the 1956 design and replacing it with the state seal of Georgia. Now, the state of Mississippi is the only state that fearlessly displays the Southern Cross in its state flag. Though several Southerners see the Confederate Flag as a symbol of southern pride and heritage, many others see the flag as a dishonorable reminder of slavery and segregation in the south. Although this flag is under great controversy in the southern states, there is no reason why this flag should not be flown from government buildings because it isn’t demoralizing African Americans in the symbolization of slavery, segregation and domination although it is used by many hate groups across the united states they too need a history lesson because the confederate flag only started as a battle flag that some blacks fought under and held with pride.

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David Walker, the author of the pamphlet -Appeal- was a black man who was born around 1796-1797 in Wilmington, North Carolina. His father was a slave, whereas his mother was a free black woman. As the law at the time demanded, the child of a free woman was automatically a free man; however, Walker lifted the veil of injustice and tyranny that covered the blacks for so long who had became servile and mentally dead. Having being told to whip his own mother to her death was one of the life changing events that fashioned the man he became. After he grew, he moved over to Boston where he started a successful thrift store, having associated himself with various prominent black activists, he became a major spokesperson in the Freedom’s Journal by the end of 1828. By September 28th 1829 he published his Appeal, which comprised of a preamble and four articles namely; Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Slavery, Of Ignorance, Of the Preachers of the Religion of Jesus Christ, and Of Colonizing plan. The primary target was for the black communities that resided in the south, where slavery was of the worst condition. Walker was determined to wake up the black men and women of the society, who he believed had succumbed to the pitiful life of ignorance,

As explained by the authors Jonathan I. Leib and Gerald R. Webster. The article states,” The Battle Flag remained above the state capitol dome until 1987 when it, the Alabama state flag, and the U.S. flag were removed to allow planned renovations of the building. As the renovations were proceeding multiple lawsuits were filed to prevent the Battle Flag from again being placed on the capitol dome. After two failures in federal court, plaintiffs were successful in a state court suit. Employing an 1895 state law that only required the U.S. and Alabama flags to fly above the capitol, the state judge hearing the case ordered the Battle Flag not be replaced on the dome.” “The judge's decision led to demonstrations, scores of critical letters to the editor in the state's newspapers, and a legal appeal by the state's Republican Governor, Guy Hunt. The appeals process was not yet complete when Governor Hunt was removed from office because of ethics violations and replaced by Democratic Lieutenant Governor James Folsom, Jr. Governor Folsom subsequently withdrew the appeal and issued an executive order that the Battle Flag not be returned to the capitol dome. The new governor's actions set off an additional round of controversy and criticism including a Ku Klux Klan rally in Montgomery to demand the flag again be placed above the capitol dome.” How ever to this day the “Confederate Battle Flag” is displayed in the chambers of the State House of Representatives where it has flown for several decades. Even after many attempts to remove it from the chambers the flag can still be found

Do you want America to be a label of controversy and disagreement?Do you want pride and patriotism to just be a thing of the past? The Confederate Flag is one of the most controversial icons of American cultures,making it the reason of many disagreements in the country’s idea of right. Therefore it should be removed from public places because it has represented the melancholy history of war and slavery,a topic that should not regain power, however respect the individuals that keep it inside their property, leaving the decision to everyone that has different judgements.

Sons of Confederate Veterans proposed a specialty plate designed that entailed the confederate flag. The message behind the confederate flag can be viewed as offensive to citizens. Sons of Confederate Veterans filed a suit against the Chairman and Board stating that it violated the Free Speech Clause. The District Court entered judgment but The Fifth Circuit reversed holding that Texas specialty plate designs are private speech and that the Board engaged in constitutionally forbidden viewpoint discrimination. Texas specialty plates constitutes government speech, the content in which the State is free to control, thus based on the dissenting Judge`s remarks, the State was entitled to refuse

In Scott v. School Bd. of Alachua County two Florida students in 2003 were suspended from school for displaying images of the Confederate flag. Both students were told countless times to stop displaying this symbol. One student flew a Confederate flag on the antenna of his truck while the other student wore a T-shirt with the image clearly displayed. The principal believed the Confederate images created an “unhealthy environment and could lead to a dangerous environment at school.” The students sued the school saying that their First Amendment rights were violated. They argued that under Tinker v. Des Moines

When SVC sued the Chairman John Walker II and the members of Texas Department of Motor Vehicles Board he claimed that the licenses plates were private speech and not government speech and was violating his First Amendment right. The District Court ruled in favor for the Board, however when SVC appealed, the Fifth Circuit the ruling was reversed and held SVC’s claim that license plates are private speech an said that the Board “engaged in constitutionally forbidden viewpoint discrimination when it refused to approve SCV’s design” (Walker v SVC). Then The U.S Supreme Court held 5 to 4 “Texas’s specialty license plate designs constitute government speech, and thus Texas was entitled to refuse to issue plates featuring SCV’s proposed design” (Walker

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On August 2009 a nonprofit group called the Sons of Confederate Veterans sent an application to the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles to have two new license plates created which would have the confederate flag on them. The TDMV has a policy which allows them to reject any application if considered offensive. After receiving negative comments the committee decided to deny their proposal.